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We love when big government institutions and agencies are joining major trends, helping the mainstream consumer adopt new technologies. In that sense we’re glad to see UK’s national meteorological service, aka the Met Office, launching its Android application.
Available as a free download, it [app] is said to provide the “most accurate and reliable weather forecasts” on TV and radio, in print, online, and well, popular smartphones. The iPhone app, in case you wonder, was released two years ago.
So what do you get with the Met Office’s Android app? There are 5-day forecasts, severe weather warnings, daily weather maps, ability to easily save and access your favorite locations, UV forecast maps, feels like temperature, interactive weather maps and so on.
All that’s cool except that some users apparently have an issue when accessing the surface pressure map layer. This bug is known to the Met Office, which promised to resolve it in a future update…
Met Office Weather Application (FREE) [iTunes link] [Android Market link]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
